Word: sacrosanctity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coincidence, the revenue target for the first year was $30 billion, roughly the amount that will be lost to the Treasury because of the 10% tax cut scheduled to go into effect July 1. It was a clear signal to the President that his sacrosanct tax reduction is in danger of being repealed...
...Garden series.) A perfectionist who will go through four crates of pineapples to get a one-minute paring sequence right, the producer teams smoothly but uncompromisingly with his star, even to working out her lines, which are all unscripted. (Sample Juliana: "A recipe is an attractive idea, not a sacrosanct monument." "If you get it wrong, you'll do it better next time. If you remember what you did wrong...
...Comedy should always be on that very fine line of going too far. It should always be on the brink of disaster. Otherwise, it's pap, and who cares? It's boring. Then you become the grand old lady. The audience will make a subject sacrosanct anyway. Death, for example. They just don't want to laugh about death. I think we should. When my mother died, I kept going by doing joke after joke. I get rid of things through very black humor. I have a wonderful Karen Carpenter joke: 'I have no pity...
...only way to deal with such deficits, most Congressmen agree, is to raise revenues. Many Democrats, led by O'Neill, argue that the 10% tax cut scheduled for July should be delayed or restricted, but the President regards as sacrosanct this third installment on the $750 billion tax cut passed in 1981. Other lawmakers, including Howard Baker, have suggested scrapping the indexing provision that, starting in 1985, will prevent tax rates from rising with inflation. Finance Committee Chairman Dole, however, defends indexing as "the best idea" of the 1981 Congress, and he could make its repeal very difficult...
...kind of information disseminated in Suicide, however, necessitates a long and critical look. Freedom-of-the-press laws themselves probably should be sacrosanct, but the press's "no harm done" mindset that encourages it to abuse its free reign warrants scrutiny. Consider not just the "information" found in Suicide, but the medical and psychological context surrounding...